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#BroaderBookshelf 2021 - Young Adult Romance Novels

  • Sara M.
  • Monday, February 22

Fulfill the "Read a Romance Novel" prompt for this year's Broader Bookshelf challenge with one of these young adult romances!  They're great books for teens and they also have a lot of crossover appeal for adults.  All of the subgenres in adult romance appear in YA romance as well, so you're sure to find something you love here!

A romance novel isn't just a book that happens to have a love story in it - romance is an enormously popular genre with its own conventions, subgenres, and devoted readers that brings in a billion dollars a year and makes up almost a quarter of all books published in America.  A true romance novel has to have two things: a central love story which is the focus of the novel and a satisfying, optimistic ending.  It doesn't have to be "happily ever after", but a true romance novel is at least "happy for now". Romances can also be sad, funny, thoughtful, and suspenseful, and are written by, about, and for a wide variety of people - even if you don't think you like romance, if you like books about people experiencing human emotion there's one for you!

 

Learn more about the Broader Bookshelf challenge and see more lists here.

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Sara M.

Research and Readers' Advisory Librarian